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Quick warning for anyone considering this board DO NOT BUY IT!!!

I have had 3 over the space of 8 days and all of them have, had the same error pop up of IOH over temperature and it is caused by running your ram at it's rated speed, because Asus have used cheap thermal paste and also not enough of it.

To fix the problem you have to remove the heatsink's, and replace the thermal paste but indoing so you void the warranty.

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Did you realise the Intel CPU specifications for the i7 920 is a max of 1066

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37147

so even if a board says it will run 1600+ with a cpu there is never a guarantee the cpu will like it

Did you know that using artic silver on the CPU in theory voids the warranty on the CPU also

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So which paste should you use then that does not void the warranty

I agree with Damien, Why should you have to fix a board that is only a few days old. Asus have gone down a step or 2 in my eyes over the last year

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In theory the manufacturers specified heatsink, fan and attached thermal compound is the ONLY thing that will not void the warranty on the cpu ;) It does though depend on wether it's an OEM cpu or official supplied upgrade CPU or even if it's a CPU supplied to the systems manufacturer

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I didn't mention the cpu zing, as I know that they "officially" only support 1066mhz ram.

The problem is with the heatsink's on the board not cooling the IOH chip.

You mention that Artic silver 5 void's the warranty but why are they allowed to make and, sell the stuff knowing that if you use it they know it's going to void the warranty or do they replace the cpu if it is faulty after you have used there thermal paste.

This thread was only started to warn people of the issue's with this particular motherboard, and that if they got one how to fix the issue at there own risk as it is classed as a modification to the board therefore you void the warranty in doing so.

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but you mentioned this. Which seeing as you do not run 1066 ram means you are running the system beyond spec

Ive read similar issues with that board even when watercooling the chipset

You over clock which voids all warranty anyway if they want to push it
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stock paste on a stock cooler if you buy a retail boxed cpu with 3 years warranty. If however you buy OEM then you get a year with whatever paste. Obviously as long as you clean the paste off the cpu and cooler they aint gonna know. Just keep the cloth away from the pins lol lol

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lol yeah i clean it off whilst it is still in the board then clean the rest off with a earbud.

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What about a cooling fan/duct dedicated towards the existing heatsink over the IOH??

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Got a desktop fan pointing in the case to help cool the graphics card and nb and sb but it still didn't help cool it

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Still not a replacement for a dedicated fan cooling a single component, hence I mentioned it

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eh? With all that watercooling you still have a fan pointed at the box?!:erm:

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Because of his mega hot graphics card, Its one of those all new all dancing power hungry Nvidia cards :LOL:.

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have a look here http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?board_id=1&model=Rampage%20III%20Extreme &id=20100523091452390&
page=1&SLanguage=en-us

and here http://www.swiftnets.com/forums/view...63e301282b2c5f

the OP is correct don't buy it

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seem.s to be the X58 chip the The MSI X58 Pro-E has the same prob
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1508504

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mine runs fine

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Damien no offence but you are proof personified as to why people should not spend thousands on trying to run a massively overclocked juiced up machine

Ive got a nice overclock on my machine a fast graphics card fast memory and it just works my last machine although a generation behind just works. You however have nothing but bother with all your systems you spend spend spend never happy ,you tweak a machine within an inch of its life and all you get in return are a few extra frames per second and so much stress its unbelievable and a machine that almost spends as much time on the bench as it does in use

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How come you aint watercooled it Damien?

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it is according to his comp specs i take it that he is just swopping boards

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I have got my cpu watercooled.

I use to have my graphic's card watercooled untill I swapped to a GTX 480, which I will be getting watercooled.

I am now running my original Rampage II Extreme mobo with the following:

Core I7 920 @ 4.0ghz prime stable 12 hour's max core temp's 60/60/58/56
Asus Rampage II Extreme Air cooled
MSI GTX 480 @ Stock Speed's Air Cooled
6gb G-Skill 2000MHZ Ram @ 1603MHZ


I am not going to watercool the motherboard because of the fact that I don't need to, because I have a fan blowing directly in to the case because of the graphics card so the fan helps to cool that, until I watercool it at which point I will probably watercool the mobo, as it will only cost a extra £100 for the block's and radiator.

I swapped to the Rampage III Extreme with a Core I7 930 and the 6gb of G-Skill 2000mhz ram, but there was a compat issue apparently according to Aria but I have now had 3 Rampage III Extreme mobo's all with the same problem.

I started this thread so that anyone thinking of buying this board would think otherwise, not to have people question what I do with my pc and all the rest of it no offence intended but if I needed advice or wanted, to have people pick apart what I was saying or am running in my pc then I would have said so.

As I say sorry if I offend anyone by that but I posted this thread to help people not to have people jump down my throat about my system yes, I like to spend money on it and overclock it and get as much out of it as I can when you spend the money I do on a pc you want, the best you can get and if that means that you have to play around with it more than usual so be it.

If you want to black or red rep go ahead or ban me I don't care I was only trying to help people not one person has said thanks for me at least posting about this issue, all that people want to do is moan and slag me off (right word not to sure), about my spending habit's and my pc well fine I will not bother anymore so go ahead and ban or red/black rep all you want not bothered anymore I just won't post any help anymore.

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:clap:

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Dunno which one you are on about :D

Only 6gig of g-skill? Pah, amateur.....I have 12gig :D :sprint:

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and ?:shrug:

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I am on about the mobo I can read thank you and seeing as this thread is about the mobo I would have thought it was obvious what I meant

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i just said that his comp specs says he has water cooling did not say you could not read did i

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Well Damien you waste hundreds of pounds on hardware..... Fact

Your systems fall over more often than a toddler taking its first steps.. exaggerated but still Fact

What I am meant to think about your skills? you refuse point blank to listen to me and I am experienced. The fact nothing you have seems to last very long makes me wonder about your experience

You spend your money how you want of course it has nothing to do with me but dont expect me not to laugh at the rediculas amount you spend over and over again and barely get any benefit. Mind your family must love it as they get your rejects

There I have spoken my mind seeing as you thought I was slagging you off before I may as well hadn't I...

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Can I ask what do you use your PC for Damien, primarily . Got to be used for some hardcore rendering or something like that (hopefully).

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Zing stop the willy waving it does not suit you. ;)

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im not willy waving I am saying it how it is.

You know as well as I do how much he has spent on that machine and its a waste. All he does is play games all these motherboards he keeps changing just to get a higher overclock which will hardly help his gaming anyway.

He has even posted that he is using a room fan? to cool the system thats something I have not had to do since Socket A days.

I am experienced and I am skilled thats not willy waving is it? neither is me saying my system just works cuz it does at any point I want I can do what I want with it I do not have to buy new motherboards or rebuilds or reformats just to get the system working again.

Still I spose at least while he is still at home he may as well spend his money as when he goes into the real world and has a family of his own he wont be able to anymore

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My pc is used for gaming and video work, but mainly gaming.

I spend money on it when I want to upgrade it and I am currently saving for the core i7 980x CPU, it may not be used fully yet but it will be there till it is.

The reason nothing last's long is not due to failure, it is down to wanting to upgrade which I do so when I think it is worth it for the money.

As I don't want to wait 30 mins or so for a video to convert or have to play a game with medium or low detail settings, I see it as worth tweaking till I get it how I want it and more fool me for trying.

I have only asked for advice recently about the graphics card, but after seeing issues with ati cards when playing games I chose nvidia yes more money but no issues in games unlike ati.

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OK you know because you are experienced i have my knowledge of computers from my mistakes no were near your expertize :dozey: but he will learn

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you have just highlighted the error in your mindset there

that is totally the wrong way to do it. I can garrentee by the time the six core are even nearly utilised something better and faster will be available. Computer hardware progresses at a tremendous speed

So you save £750 to blow on a cpu then you find in 2011 Intel release the X68 chipset ( its on the roadmap) you have to buy that and then what? Bill smiles as he gets a nice £750 cpu while you "upgrade" again

You had a perfectly good i7 machine pretty close to when they were released didnt you? does Bill have that now? how many other builds you done around the i7 for yourself ?

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Zing

That has nothing to do with it and you know it. To be honest i think your just looking for an argument to while away you Sunday night.

What he does with his money has feck all to do with you.

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Can I have your old hat pc stuff whe u have finshed with it Damien .My new best friend

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its true though

Rammy wouldn't spend anything like that much and he is rich lol . Would you spend it ? be honest? do you see value for money in what he does?

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:)

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He can spend his money on what he wants. As long as he pays his rent and electricity i don't care. The lad is doing the same job as me now and gets much the same wage. So he has lots over each month :)

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ok dude but I am entitled to my opinion. The day Damien can keep a machine running that opinion can change. And before he says its all hardware remember I have seen what he posts between builds

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I asked because I did a bit of checking around to see what's new etc. I have a Q9550, 8gb Ram (not any fancy make), I did splash out on a ATI HD5850, I play games and do quite a bit of rendering. Anyway, I checked around, looked at the I7 etc and branded ram and also high spec gfx cards (I can't have any as they won't fit in my case anyway), but I couldn't find anywhere to state that anything better would make anything any better.

Apart from the odd game like Crysis which I can live without being on the crazy high settings, everything else seems to run on max and still have a lot more room to go. So I've come to the conclusion quite easily that it would be a waste of money to upgrade anything at this point. Unless I want a higher score on some benchmarking program.

Even though my PC is about a year or 2 old now, apart from the i7 I don't think that much has changed.

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I went from a 9450 to an i7 and it does give you a lot of headroom when running heavy rendering/ encoding

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:smokin:zing ya not a bit green around the gills are ya because he has so much money to spend on computer hard ware

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Not interested in petty arguments anymore I tried to help people from making the mistake I did by buying the board but it has become a thread for let's try and make Damien look like a idiot which hasn't worked, it's gone the other way.

Can a admin close the thread and close my account I obviously can't try to help people anymore without people trying to make me look a idiot.

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So Zing

You got your wish.

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Damien

You will need to PM a Mod.

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Don't be like that. I find anything you have to say (inc Zing) very interesting regarding hardware etc.

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not at all as that is not the whole point I am trying to make. I have money to blow on hardware but I choose not to as it would be a waste

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thats hardly what I wanted believe it or not I try to help the lad save some money instead of wasting it whats wrong with that?

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No matter what I say I am alway's wrong!!!

So not interested only tried to help and it turn's in to a thread to call me a idiot for spending money on hardware that is better than I currently have, even though I will use that hardware to the best that it can be at that point.

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that's your choice

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I only ask for advice between component's and then I read the reviews on it aswell, it's not my fault that I can spend money on good hardware to be able to max game's and do other stuff fast as I don't have the time to wait for it to be done.

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how do you? I use my machine heavily and I am yet to stretch it. I can understand want for top end GFX . I assume you have bought a 480? and part of me wishes I had Nvidia cuz of potential 3D later. And since you bought a 1080 tv I can understand you need to upgrade from what you had.

Keeping changing your mobo and cpu( if you have) will make little difference in real world computing until there are fundamental changes in hardware

You have had 4 gig out of a 920 on various boards have you not?

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You could look and say how many people have wasted all that money buying Macs and not a proper computer. :D

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nothing wrong with that its just the way you come across on your post you red reped me because you did not like what i said

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discussing reps is not allowed or I would go into detail

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go ahead

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not worth the trouble I would get from the team ta very much

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